HEALTH

Permanent registration counters at new OPD block
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh , June 15
To streamline services in the new OPD block of the PGI, permanent registration counters have now been set up. There are registration counters on all the floors that house different OPDs. Whereas some OPDs are run daily, others have fixed days. A list that specifies the registration counters, on different floors is as follow:

OPD/clinics	New registration	Revisit	Floor/Block	Days
Medical	16,18	14	3B	Daily
Surgery	15	14	4C	Daily
Gynaecology	2C	2C	2C	Daily
ENT	4C	4C	4A	Daily
Skin	5C	5C	5C	Daily
Eye	4B	4B	4B	Daily
Orthopaedics	2B	2B	2B	Daily
Psychiatry	2A	2A	2A	Daily
Plastic surgery	2A	2A	2A	Daily
Neurology	6	6	3A	Mon/Wed/Fri
Neurosurgery	6	6	3A	Tue/Thu/Sat
Urology	3C	3C	3C	Tue/Thu/Sat
Cardiology	5	3C	3C	Daily excepts Thu
Paediatric cardiology	3C	3C	3C	Thu
Cardio thoracic vascular	5	3C	3C	Mon/Wed
Chest	5	3C	3C	Mon/Thu
Leukemia	5	3B	3B	Mon
Endocrinology	5	3B	3B	Wed/Thu
Rheumatology	5	3B	3B	Tue/Fri
Thyroid	5	3B	3B	Wed/Thu
Gastroenterology/GUT	5	3B	3B	GE(Tue) GUT(Thu)
Liver	5	3B	3B	Mon/Fri
Pain (PAC)	4C	4C	4C (420)	Daily
Internal medicine (IMC)	5	3B	3B	Fri
Renal clinic (SRC)	5	3B	3B	Sat
Diet clinic	3B	3B	3B (326)	Daily
Haematology	5	3B	3B	Mon
Renal	5	3C	3C	Mon/Wed
Staff clinic	3A	3A	3A	Daily
Daycare	5B	5B	5B	Daily
Dispensary	2B	2B	2B (222)	Daily
ECG	3C	3C	3C (313)	Daily
Fine Needle Aspiration Center	1C	1C	1C (127)	Tue/Thu/Sat
Test reports	1A	1A	1B	Daily

SPORTS

Raw beginners turn into swinging golfers
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 15
The month long summer golf coaching camp concluded at the CGA Golf Range today. Twenty school children attended the camp under the watchful eyes of Col (Retd) Nirmal Singh, Director of the Golf Academy. These children were absolute raw beginners, virtually unexposed to physical rigour.

“Air Conditioned Kids”, as the Colonel called them, were put through a strict regimen of physical conditioning for 30 minutes per day. This included a daily run of 1.5 to 2.5 km throughout the duration of the camp; heat or rain notwithstanding, reminiscent of the Colonel’s own Military Academy days. The children responded splendidly and it was heartening to note that there were no absentees during the entire camp.

Nothing could quite match the enthusiasm for the session of competitions. Most of the children, in spite of the extra long session in the morning yesterday and that too in rain, returned later in the evening to prepare for today’s events, which included competitions in putting, chipping and a long drive competition using a 7-iron club.

The winning drive of nearly 150 yards would do proud to even a seasoned golfer. Well done Master Raghav Kapoor. Miss Vriti Gujral, who could barely move her arms a few days ago and could not run even 100 yards without stopping surprised every one with a 97-yard long shot. Lets not forget a single stroke 30-foot long putt by Ankit Bhargava that gave him the putting trophy.

Mr D.P. Azad, President of the CGA, while welcoming Mr G.S. Narang, Commissioner, Central Excise and Customs (Appeals), told the large gathering that this was the third camp conducted by the CGA within a short span of 5 months. Mr Jagdeep Singh Cheema, Senior Vice-President, CGA along with Vice-Presidents Daljit Singh and Surinder Jhina, Secretary Vivek Vahi and Joint Secretary J.S. Sukhija while thanking the chief guest said that very soon a miniature golf course and a swimming pool would be added to the complex. One surely missed the physical presence of Mr C.S.R. Reddy, but his trademark of creativity in the form of floodlights and the new restaurant were reminders of his contributions to the range.

Col (Retd) Nirmal Singh had this to say to the parents of the young hopefuls: “As parents, you obviously have a great influence on the child’s development as a golfer and a sportsman. They, instinctively, try to copy you, whether it is golf or other facets of life. Being a golfing parent helps a lot; you can spend most of their golfing time in your loving and caring company. But as far as golf is concerned, leave the real teaching to the professionals. There is nothing wrong with a friendly advice, but conflicting advice not only confuses the child, but also damages his/her confidence and impedes the progress.”

Mr G.S. Narang, who gave away the prizes to the winners, was highly appreciative of the progress being made by golfers of Chandigarh and he hoped that with such would class facilities being developed for golf in India, the country was sure to become a force to reckon with in the golfing world.

The results:
Up to Class VI: Putting — Ankit Bhargava (St John’s) 1; Rishab Gulati (St John’s) 2. Chipping — Abhijit Chaddha (St John’s) 1; Harman Gill (Vivek) 2. Driving competition girls — Vriti Gujral (Carmel Convent) 1; Kanika Gupta (St Anne’s) 2.

Above Class VI: Putting — Kanika Gupta (St Anne’s) 1; Guneet Sabharwal (Shivalik Public School) 2. Chipping — Mahjabeen Pirzada (Vasant Valley, N. Delhi) 1; Kanika Gupta (St Anne’s) 2. Driving competition boys — Raghav Kapoor (DAV School) 1; Harman gill (Vivek High School) 2.

Special prizes for the youngest trainees (both class 2 students): Tanvi Bhargava (Carmel Convent) 1; Partap Sandhu (Vivek ) 2.

Yoga training camp
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, June 15
A training camp to treat common ailments would commence from June 16 at the Yog Divya Mandir Sector 12. Organised by the Haryana Yoga Sabha, Prof M. Lal would conduct the workshop on yoga therapy on the first two days.

Stating this, here today, Mr I.S Gandhi, president of the Haryana Yog Sabha, said that on other days yoga training would continue under the supervision of trained yogacharyas.

The training will be imparted in four sessions everyday. The first session will start at 5.30 a.m. in which techniques of meditation will be taught. The second session of the camp will start at 6.30 a.m. and continue till 8.30 a.m. Patient suffering from chronic and incurable diseases will be given treatment through different yoga kiryas, asanas and pranayama.

Mr Gandhi added that the third session from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. would be exclusively for students and sportspersons to help them improve their physical fitness and mental growth including concentration of mind.

The last session of the daily schedule of Yoga training will be from 8.30 p.m. to 10 p.m. which will include dhyan yoga, bhakati and discourses on various aspects of yoga, he added.

Coaching Centre in final
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 15
The Coaching Centre-16 cricket team qualified from pool ‘B’ for the final of the first St Joseph Cricket Tournament being organised by the Association of Chandigarh Cricket. The rain washed out the whole day’s play today ousting DAV Coaching Centre-8 from the tournament without playing any match. Yesterday the team’s first match with Lawerance Public School SAS Nagar, was also washed out. So one point was awarded to each team.

Today also, rain interrupted the match. Umpires after inspecting the wicket at 12.30 p.m. ruled that the play was not possible. So one point was awarded to each team. The final will be played on Sunday.

Summer cricket

The Industrial Cricket Club will take on the Chetna Cricket Club in the 50-over final of 5th UT Summer League-cum-Knockout Tournament on June 17 at the Sector 16 cricket stadium. Chetan Sharma, Test cricketer, will be the guest of honour at the prize distribution ceremony.

ADMINISTRATION

MC to employ cops
Tribune News Service

SAS Nagar, June 15
To carry out encroachment removal drives in the town, the SAS Nagar Municipal Council will seek help in the form of force from the Punjab Police. The cops would also carry out various jobs which often attract violent protests from local residents.

The issue is being taken up at a meeting of the civic body scheduled for tomorrow. Mr Kulwant Singh, president of the civic body said a team of six cops, headed by an ASI, would be employed and paid salary from the funds of the civic body. In the past, there had been incidents when staff on enforcement duty in the “tehbazari” and octroi wings had been attacked by unscrupulous elements and/or local residents.

The issue of filling over 30 vacant posts of firemen at the local fire station was also being taken up in the meeting. Presently, only five firemen were manning the fire station, which was responding to calls from as far as Ropar.

Sanction to keep the additional men had been granted by the Local Government Department. The president said the issue regarding hiring the firemen on a regular or contract basis would be discussed in the meeting.

Demolition of bus queue shelter on the road between Phase II and Phase VI, which had been declared unsafe is also being sought from the councillors. Permission to bore tubewells in Phase I and II of Industrial Area is also being sought.

Computerised birth and death certificates 
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 15
City residents will now be able to get computerised copies of birth and death certificates with the computerisation of the office of the Registrar of Births and Deaths in process. According to officials, the process of procuring a birth or death certificate will initially take a week and will later be reduced to one day.

This comes as a relief to residents, who earlier had to wait for at least two months for the initial process to begin. And in case additional copies were required , one had to wait for another six weeks.

It also comes as a relief to the Department, which according to the officials, had continued to be understaffed, despite a manifold increase in population of the city.

The office has been equipped with six computers on a “Billed Operate and Transfer Basis” and the UT Administration will not spend any funds on the computerisation. But the residents will have to pay extra for the services as the Department will charge Rs 21, instead of Rs 7 for the certificate and Rs 18 instead of Rs 5 for every subsequent copy.

After the computerisation process and the realisation of the amount spent by the private party on computerisation, the entire hardware, as well as the software will be transferred to the Department. This is likely to take five years, say the officials.

F & CC meeting on June 18
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 15
Privatisation of street lights in the city, construction of a new fire station at Sector 26, estimates for undertaking external electrification at various waterworks and boring and installing tubewells are some of the agenda items, which will be taken up by the Finance and Contract Committee ( F and CC) meeting of the Municipal Corporation on June 18.

The issue regarding the privatisation of streetlights in the city has figured in the F and CC agenda at least four times before, but has not been discussed so far. But now that the Administration has also given its consent to the civic body to go ahead with the said proposal, it is likely to be taken up in this meeting.

The other items pertain to the estimates for improving the intersection of V-3 and V-4 road between Sector 36 and 37; auction of various parking sites adjoining Piccadily, Neelam, Batra, KC and Nirman cinema halls; estimate for construction of pipeline coming in the alignment of newly-proposed road near Raen Basera and Gobindpura, Mani majra.

The committee will also discuss the revised cost estimate for providing EI in ground floor MC building with fans and fittings; estimates for providing and fixing LAN network and tender for supply and carriage of ordinary portland cement for the MC.

Besides this, the issues of giving permission to sell sugarcane juice in Mani majra; estimate for constructing four toilet blocks in the markets of Ram Durbar Colony, Industrial Area, Phase-II and estimates for providing external electrification at the sectors 26, 12, 32 and 37 waterworks also figure on the agenda.